Grade 3 Social Studies Overview
Course Description
This course focuses on building students’ knowledge of their role and the role of others within their community, state, nation, and world. Geographical tools, historical documents, landmarks, symbols, and cultures are explored as ways to understand past and present ways of life.
Course Big Ideas
- Leadership roles will be defined within each component.
- Geographical tools can be used to identify and locate places.
- Historical documents, symbols, and landmarks hold significance within the state and nation.
- Lifestyles change over time.
- Businesses and consumers are needed to make a city operate.
Course Competencies
- Participate in leadership roles within the classroom and schoolwide community.
- Locate and identify places on maps.
- Understand the importance of various historical documents, symbols, and landmarks.
- Compare and contrast different cultures.
- Identify leadership roles with the community, state, and nation.
Course Essential Questions
- How do we follow rules and accept consequences for our actions?
- How do we use geographical tools to identify and locate places?
- How do historical documents, symbols, landmarks, and cultures shape where I live?
- What are the roles of leaders within my community, state, and nation?
Course Assessments
- 21st Century skills (as reported on report card)
- Participation in Junior Achievement lessons
- Labeling places and oceans on maps
- Evaluation of end of unit projects